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Category Archives: Payslips

Employees at risk from fines for tax code errors

Recent research shows that there has been a significant rise in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) investigations related to tax code errors used by employers on payslips. The firm who carried out this research, Pinsent Masons, revealed that there were nearly 1600 investigations in the year 2011-2012. In their view, “cost-cutting measures and outsourcing by [...]

Why are payslips such a mystery?

The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) recently exposed that over a quarter of employees are in the dark with regard some of the details on their payslip; almost 15% don’t check their payslip and over one in twenty employees never even look at it. These finding were the result of research carried out by [...]

Is a handwritten payslip allowed?

Another payslip question has been sent into the Payroll Services Centre following on from from recent payslip queries: Where I am working we get handwritten payslips. Are they legal as they can’t be used as a proof of income? Please do advise me as to how do I get a printed payslips as I am [...]

Payslip questions

A couple of payslip related questions have been sent in to us in the last few days raising points that are worthy of a blog post to explore the answers. The questions raised are: The company that I work for has sent a memo to all employee’s informing them that there will be no more [...]